Alma Adams: “You hold the power to right these wrongs and restore it to its original intent.”

In one of the richest countries in the world no one working full-time should be living in poverty.

The current sub-minimum wage with tipped employees perpetuates low pay, enables, inexcusable levels of wage theft, and it leads to higher poverty rates.

The Trump administration's attempt to gut protections for tipped workers have only worsened these issues by allowing employers to steal almost 6 billion dollars of worker's hard-earned tips for themselves each year.

The Trump Department of Labor pushed to allow low road employers to steal tipped workers hard earned pay.